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First Look at Apple's Intel Developer Macs
xyankee writes "Think Secret is reporting that developers have started taking receipt of Apple's Intel-based Mac kits. Along with some specs and photos, the site reports that Windows XP installs without a hitch on the systems and that casually trying to install Mac OS X for Intel on a Dell doesn't work... yet..."
If that was completely true, I should be able to download Tiger from the Apple website to install on my Mac, right? Nope. I have to buy it, and it's not cheap. The truth of the matter is that Apple is double-dipping. They rip you off on the hardware, and then again on the software. Not saying it's wrong - after all if people are willing to pay, good for them.
lets see the benchmarks
dbench would be intresting so would Bonnie++
on MacOS intel and linux
lets see photoshop reality distortion at work.... Hmmm me thinky not work so good
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John Jones
All the bugs listed there are patched.
This implies that you are not a security person. If your main argument is "oh it's patched, it'se secure", you have done a day of security in your life. Some of us want stable, non-changing software for long periods of time. You know, so I don't have to go through updating foo-OS every week because my vendor can't get his shit together. Indeed, patching something does make it secure after the fact, but it doesn't help with it being secure in the first place. Apple needs to sit down, hire some GOOD programmers, and comb through their code.
That's one of the reasons people like to say Apple is secure. For remote exploits, they have a fabulous reputation of quick...
Hahaha! Hahaha! Wow, you almost got water out my nose there!
Where shall I begin?
Maybe the quicktime heap overwrite from last year, that Apple refused to give attention to.
How about the MP3Concept spoof thing floating around early last year? The one apple failed to acknowledge?
Both of these allow me to get access to the computer from somewhere other than in front of it. Especially with some social engineering.
Apple's security is on par with most Linux distros
Bullshit. Gentoo, Debian, Linux and Freebsd had no vulnerabilites as abusurd as "at not dropping root privileges" in years, Apple did is in Jan. In 1994, it would have been ok to let that slip by, but not any more. Solaris is a different matter..they can't seem to keep their "passwd" utility safe no matter what they do.
I count 5 exploits that are triggerable remotely.
HA!
I go to osvdb, search Apple, OSX and check "remote". I see 56. I don't know what you're smoking. Hell, I see 18 this year alone, and it's only June!
That's why the thing isn't riddled with bugs, has awesome security features like a time sensitive, integrity-checking Keychain, and generally has a good set of secure, default settings.
Oh, you mean the awesome security like it showing you the root account is disabled, but it's not?
You fanatics sure are silly.